TRAINER ESCAPES IN FIGHT WITH LIONS
PEORIA (Tllinoi.s.). 'Ten lions tore at each other and two were kilied in a half-hour fight while their trainer, in the cage with them, strove unsuccessfully to vestore order. Trainer Diclc Clemens was drmed only with a chair but was unharmel. The fight occuvred when Clemens j'introducecl four new animals he had obtained from the 200 into an cnclosure eontaining other lions and two tigersr Clemcms said: "I am surprised I ani alive. It was the worst cat fight I hav,e ever seen in my 30 years as a .trainer. One of my old lions, Tyrone, got jeal.uts when I introduced the new ones. He started to fight with a tiger sittino: on a seat above him. The new lions were scaml and tried to I'un into 1 rhe chute, hut the man there was iate in opening the door. So there I was in the middle — -new lions on one side and old lions and two tigers on the other. 'The fight was a snarling blitzkrieg. I dropped my gun — I was plenty seared. One of the new lions had its neelc and back broken, another new one was so badly wounded I had to kill it. The fight cnded only when they were all exhausted."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5320, 5 February 1947, Page 3
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213TRAINER ESCAPES IN FIGHT WITH LIONS Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5320, 5 February 1947, Page 3
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